Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm seventeen, and everybody and their mother told me to read The Hunger Games, because "it's incredible!". I finally decided "Why not?", despite the fact that I have long given up on Young Adult novels. Sure, I've come across some good ones, but The Hunger Games is a prime example of why I don't shop in that section anymore. For what was advertised to me as an "awesome, fast-paced adventure", I was bored out of my mind from start to finish. With every turn of the page, I thought it'd get better, thinking surely something interesting had to happen or else people wouldn't be so obsessed with it. Twilight should have taught me that people can go nuts over poorly executed literature, but I gave it the benefit of the doubt. The book is poorly written, in the POV of the main character, Katniss. When I say "poorly written", I mean both in the construct and execution of plot and characters, AND the writing style (e.g., Lots of cliche ideas, like "it feels like I was just dreaming", and one line I remember reading was "the saltiness of the soup reminds me of my tears". I find that ridiculous, like some moping Emo-stereotype) And, because the story is in first-person, I (*spoilers*?) started the book KNOWING that she wasn't going to die (not to mention, two books follow). I didn't feel any danger for her and I didn't like her. While, admittedly, I like the CONCEPT of the book, I didn't enjoy anything about it while reading. The characters and plot are one-dimensional. It was painfully predictable. Cliche. Boring. Immature. The sad thing is, I think teenagers like this book because it requires no thought--it has no sustenance by means of developed characters or intricate plot. If we want people my age to start reading, should we really settle for feeding them empty stories like this one?